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LEGAL INSTRUMENTS FOR THE
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Željka Leljak Gracin, lawyer
FoE Croatia
Webinar 24-25th February 2016
Toolkit – legal instruments –why?
• new legal branch - multidisciplinary
• lack of practice
• participation in decision-making
• activism
Which countries?
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Bosnia i Herzegovina
Serbia
Montenegro
Croatia
• Similiarities and difrences?
Toolkit – content?
• Environmental legislation in the context of
accession to the European Union
• Constitutional Law instruments for
environmental protection
• Administrative Law instruments for
environmental protection
• Criminal Law instruments for environmental
protection
• Civil Law instruments for environmental
protection
Environmental legislation in the context of
accession to the European Union
• Criteria for EU membership
• Chapter 27
• Horizontal legislation
Constitutional Law instruments for
environmental protection
• Environmental protection in the constitutions of
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and
Montenegro
• The protection of constitutionality and legality of
regulations in all 4 countries
• Constitutional complaint/ appeal/appeal to the
Constitutional Court
• Example - Plomin C ( Croatia )
Administrative Law instruments for
environmental protection
• Administrative procedure and administrative
disputes in all 4 countries
• Public participation in administrative procedures
on the environment, and the Aarhus Convention
• Public participation in administrative procedures
on the environment in all 4 countries
• Examples – Legal battle for preservation of the
river Sana ( BIH ); hydropower plants on the river
Lim ( Serbia )
Criminal Law instruments for
environmental protection
• Crimes against environment in all 4 countries
• Criminal procedure and criminal charges
• Misdemeanor against the environment
• Examples – Crime of pollution and failing to
take measures to preserve environment
(Montenegro); Misdemeanor procedure –
Veliki Bački kanal (Serbia)
Civil Law instruments for environmental
protection
• Lawsuit over harmful emissions and lawsuit
over trespassing
• Environmental lawsuit (the request to
eliminate the risk of damage)
• Repressive instruments of exercising civil law
environmental protection
• No example from practice
Usefull examples/forms
• Lawsuit to Administrative Court
• Request for information
• Appeal (administrative complaint)
• Criminal report
LEGAL INSTRUMENTS FOR THE
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
English .pdf
Serbian .pdf
Croatian/Bosnian .pdf
Montenegrin .pdf
Next steps?
New toolkit!
- update for 4 countries covered in the „old”
toolkit +
- Coverage of the new countries: Turkey,
Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo
Toolkit – legal instruments
Thank you for your
attention!!!!
Contact
Željka Leljak Gracin, lawyer
Zelena akcija
Frankopanska 1
10 000 Zagreb
tel/fax: 01/4813 096
e-mail: [email protected]